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These 3D hologram/incredibly detailed geophys graphics machines are probably so expensive that they can only be purchased by archaeologists working on TV programmes.
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I was thinking of contacting the BBC and suggesting that they could rent out the lab when it wasn't being used for filming. Good way of supplementing the license fee I thought. }
(reply to voice off..... What do you mean 'it's not real'?)
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I cant see what the problem is with bonekickers is....that sort of thing happens to me all the time [hm], turn up on site and then Im of on an adventure...I mean last week I was after Holy Grail with a crack team of archaeologist with a fully equiped lab at my disposal and being chased by sword waving mad persons....my fiance kicked me out the room after 5 mins of grinding teeth and whining...most exciting thing to happen on a dig to me was when I got stuck in a peat bog.
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May god go with you in all the dark places you must walk.
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Stuck in a bog? You lucky lucky person..... Some of us would've PAID for that sort of excitement![:o)]
AS the for the sword wielding etc, that only seems to happen on my days off... [:o)]
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'I was thinking of contacting the BBC and suggesting that they could rent out the lab when it wasn't being used for filming. Good way of supplementing the license fee I thought.'
Even if a lab full of props you couldn't use that looked as good as that would make you feel very professional! Maybe you could just hire it for events involving the public, in fact, maybe you could hire the actors to turn up on site and say things like 'Give up your secrets' and 'it's all about the layers' when the developer is getting a bit stroppy. Call it a personal appearance; perhaps reports can have a list of cast rather than acknowledgements, perhaps tenders can include costs for car chases and self-defence lessons, perhaps I should shut up now!
No-one's yet commented on the excellent piece of advertising, perhaps the first archaeaological product placement ever, in the form of Aerial Cam's land rover parked centre stage! Well done indeed that man!
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"AS the for the sword wielding etc, that only seems to happen on my days off..."
You're not a re-enactor or HMA practitioner by any chance....?
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by RedEarth
Even if a lab full of props you couldn't use that looked as good as that would make you feel very professional! Maybe you could just hire it for events involving the public, in fact, maybe you could hire the actors to turn up on site and say things like 'Give up your secrets' and 'it's all about the layers' when the developer is getting a bit stroppy. Call it a personal appearance; perhaps reports can have a list of cast rather than acknowledgements, perhaps tenders can include costs for car chases and self-defence lessons, perhaps I should shut up now!
No-one's yet commented on the excellent piece of advertising, perhaps the first archaeaological product placement ever, in the form of Aerial Cam's land rover parked centre stage! Well done indeed that man!
:face-approve:Good thinking! And I wouldn't feel any more out of place than in a REAL lab, where I also can't use most of the stuff!
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by m300572
"AS the for the sword wielding etc, that only seems to happen on my days off..."
You're not a re-enactor or HMA practitioner by any chance....?
Not a re-enactor. Do western medieval martial arts (longsword, sword and buckler, dagger, wrestling, bit of poleaxe etc etc).
(So yes, sort of HMA)
But I've never done it on the end of a rope down a big cavern......
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Redearth, Take that back about Extreme Archaeology! Best arch programme ever, bar none.:face-approve:
Quote:quote:Somebody must have tried geofizz in cemeteries as it must a common problem or a good place to practice? Has anybody tried it?
Yes tried it. Didn't work. Plan B (big yellow trowel) now in operation.
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Merc The big yellow one, you must be looking for quite big gaps. I think mine could be quite small with little room for manoeuvre. I was thinking 100 quid a day mini digger with me driving but still yet to see where there might be some profit for anybody in it-reinstatement, getting it wrong. I think that you would need to find about ten plots a day. Oddly about a year ago I was doing a plant survey in a cemetery and the grave diggers found out that I had a passing interest in archaeology and showed me these roman sarcophaguses which they had dug up and chucked in a hedge. Somebody told me that they were in America now ?the grave diggers that is.
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[quote]Originally posted by mercenary
Redearth, Take that back about Extreme Archaeology! Best arch programme ever, bar none.:face-approve:
I'm saying nothing, although I seem to recall they had an impressive looking post-ex tent/pod thing in which RC dates would be presented seemingly minutes after they had got off site (the magic of post-production editing - blimy that sounded like I know something about TV programmnes, don't worry, I don't). Maybe that was the inspiration for Bonekickers. Extreme Archaeology was still rubbish though, but not as rubbish as Lost Treasures with Mark Olly, but I suspect you have to live in the north west to be treated with that.
